White male jocks to become a protected class?

O the travails of the white male progressive. Always stumping for other oppressed people but always being the lowest card in the deck in Victimhood Poker. If only there was a way for them to store treasure in Leftist Heaven simply by being made in its hydra-headed god’s image.

Enter Vikings punter Chris Kluwe as the coming Messiah and Les Carpenter playing John the Baptist’s voice crying in the wilderness. Mr. Kluwe’s foul-mouthed emanations first stunk up my internet radar shortly after the release of the video game X-COM: Enemy Unknown. Apparently the developers of this (granted, excellent) game found out that Mr. Kluwe was a gaming enthusiast and added him as a playable character in the game. My first reaction was positive and I liked the novelty. Then I looked him up. Warning: this link here in addition to being full of the hoary belchings of Official Mendacity is also laced with obscenities.

Now Chris is being let go. While I am fully familiar with football’s rules and occasionally tune in, I have no knowledge of inside football, so I am relying on the general consensus of the commenters at Mr. Carpenter’s article that say that while Mr. Kluwe is good, he is not 1.3 million-dollars good and therefore it is justifiable that the management doesn’t want to keep him. But that does not stop Mr. Carpenter from declaring that none of us are worthy to stoop down and loosen the laces on Chris’s cleats. “In fact he had been a very effective punter, deadening his kicks as if his leg was a 9-iron.”

So, according to Les the Baptist, the real reason Chris is being let go must be because we Pharisees and Scribes who doubt must be homophobic. And there you have it: the white male heterosexual jock has found a way into the sanctum sanctorum. Just recite the creed, “I believe in same-sex marriage” and you’re in.

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As the last torch of civilization flickers out, the wolves slink closer.

In an astonshing display of gentleness in the face of a vile attack, the head of the Catholic Church in Belgium, Archbishop Andre-Joseph Leonard, remained calmly seated with eyes closed in prayer Tuesday as four topless women attacked him with shouts and curses and doused him with water.

Full story: http://www.lifesitenews.com/news/archbishop-prays-while-topless-gay-activists-shout-curses-and-douse-him-wit

[Update] And in France:

On 13th April 2013 in Paris, Samuel Lafont, a young man taking part in the pro-family and pro-morality demonstration organized by La Manif Pour Tous, was stabbed four times in the back by vicious homosexual activists.

Lafont, who was unarmed like all the protestors, was [...] pushed to the ground and deliberately, savagely attacked. He had to be taken to the Georges Pompidou hospital where he received emergency surgery.

Here via the blog That the Bones You Have Crushed May Thrill: http://thatthebonesyouhavecrushedmaythrill.blogspot.co.uk/2013/04/pro-marriage-protestor-stabbed-four.html

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Courageous Vatican spotted two points off the port bow.

April 18, 2013 (LifeSiteNews.com) – An Argentinean priest who has been an outspoken supporter of homosexual “marriage” and gender ideology has been removed from the clerical state permanently by the Vatican’s Congregation of the Clergy, according to the Archdiocese of Cordoba, where the cleric was stationed.
Fr. Alessio.

The Archdiocese reports that the decision to laicize Fr. Jose Nicolas Alessio was officially issued on February 6, and that the priest is “excluded from all exercise of sacred ministry, in accordance with the norms that obligate priests that have been dismissed.”

Full story: http://www.lifesitenews.com/news/priest-who-defended-homosexual-marriage-transgenderism-defrocked-by-vatican?utm_source=LifeSiteNews.com+Daily+Newsletter&utm_campaign=f9ca86fbd8-LifeSiteNews_com_US_Headlines_04_19_2013&utm_medium=email

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The Test Acts Cometh: Florist sued for not bowing to same-sex mutual-masturbation arrangements given a legal rubberstamp by a State that has declared an informal war against Truth, Goodness, and plain ol’ reality.

The state attorney general has filed a lawsuit in Benton County Superior Court against a Richland florist who refused to provide flowers for the wedding of longtime gay customers, citing her religious opposition to same-sex marriage.

 

 

And of course the Usual Suspects declare, “but they’re breaking the law!” as one “Maryland Bill” put it: “we are not persecuting Christians, we are prosecuting people who break the law with their opposition to abortion, or same sex marriage or because they try to push religious beliefs into the public square. Those who hold their faith privately have nothing to fear from us.”

Full story here: http://seattletimes.com/html/localnews/2020743969_floristlawsuitxml.html

Hat tip Mark Shea

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Equality is Code for Destruction: Same-sex “marriage” advocate admits “marriage should not exist”.

It’s a no-brainer that we should have the right to marry, but I also think equally that it’s a no-brainer that the institution of marriage should not exist [cheers from the audience].

That causes my brain some trouble. And part of why it causes me trouble is because fighting for gay marriage generally involves lying about what we are going to do with marriage when we get there—because we lie that the institution of marriage is not going to change, and that is a lie. The institution of marriage is going to change, and it should change. And again, I don’t think it should exist. And I don’t like taking part in creating fictions about my life. That’s sort of not what I had in mind when I came out thirty years ago. I have three kids who have five parents, more or less, and I don’t see why they shouldn’t have five parents legally….

[After my divorce,] I met my new partner, and she had just had a baby, and that baby’s biological father is my brother, and my daughter’s biological father is a man who lives in Russia, and my adopted son also considers him his father. So the five parents break down into two groups of three…. And really, I would like to live in a legal system that is capable of reflecting that reality. And I don’t think that’s compatible with the institution of marriage.

http://str.typepad.com/weblog/2012/07/same-sex-marriage-wont-be-enough.html

Hat tip Kevin O’Brien

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Fr. Hollowell proposes the Mark of the Beast

See his entry here: http://on-this-rock.blogspot.com/2013/03/the-mark-of-beast.html

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Dump Starbucks

http://joemiller.us/2013/03/starbucks-ceo-no-tolerance-for-traditional-marriage-supporters/

At the Starbucks annual shareholders meeting on Wednesday, CEO Howard Schultz sent a clear message to anyone who supports traditional marriage over gay marriage: we don’t want your business. After saying Starbucks wants to “embrace diversity of all kinds,” he told a shareholder who supports traditional marriage that he should sell his shares and invest in some other company.

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Boycott DC Comics

I suppose that is easy for me to say as I don’t regularly patronize any comic books, film adaptations, etc. but there it is:

 

After pro-homosexual activists promoted an online petition demanding the firing of award-winning speculative fiction writer Orson Scott Card from an upcoming Superman comic anthology, DC Comics confirmed that Card’s portion of the project has been shelved indefinitely.

Source: http://www.lifesitenews.com/news/under-fire-from-gay-activists-dc-comics-shelves-superman-project-by-mormon

Hat tip John C. Wright

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Catholics: Before you say, “Let’s get the State out of the marriage business” again…

…please read the Vatican document “Considerations Regarding Proposals to Give Legal Recognition to Unions Between Homosexual Persons”. Bookmark it, print it out, have it loaded for pasting in your Ctrl+v, commit the more salient parts to memory. Such as:

The scope of the civil law is certainly more limited than that of the moral law,(11) but civil law cannot contradict right reason without losing its binding force on conscience.(12) Every humanly-created law is legitimate insofar as it is consistent with the natural moral law, recognized by right reason, and insofar as it respects the inalienable rights of every person.(13) Laws in favour of homosexual unions are contrary to right reason because they confer legal guarantees, analogous to those granted to marriage, to unions between persons of the same sex. Given the values at stake in this question, the State could not grant legal standing to such unions without failing in its duty to promote and defend marriage as an institution essential to the common good.

And consider these your marching orders:

In those situations where homosexual unions have been legally recognized or have been given the legal status and rights belonging to marriage, clear and emphatic opposition is a duty. One must refrain from any kind of formal cooperation in the enactment or application of such gravely unjust laws and, as far as possible, from material cooperation on the level of their application. In this area, everyone can exercise the right to conscientious objection.

And don’t fall for it when someone refers to it as “Allowing gays to marry”. As Zippy puts it:

The passive libertarian language of “allowing” deliberately conceals the reality; for what is advocated is not mere passivity.  What is advocated at the most basic level is for society to enforce certain kinds of legal contracts, even though those legal contracts are grossly immoral.  The passive language “allow gays to marry” is a lie.   Enforcing contracts is an activity of government (not a passivity), and it is impossible to decide what to actively enforce and what not to actively enforce without making substantive judgements about the good.  Substantive judgements about the good will necessarily discriminate: every function of governance, including contract enforcement, is an authoritative discrimination of some kind resting on some substantive concept of the good.  What makes liberalism (including libertarianism) different from other political views is that liberalism has to make authoritative discriminations resting in a substantive conception of the good while at the same time denying that it is doing so.  What makes liberalism different is that it has to lie about itself in order to invoke its own justifying principles, that is, nondiscrimination (equality of rights) and freedom from substantive discriminating authority.

We don’t “allow” – that is, actively enforce with police, courts, and jails – just any sort of contract whatsoever, and we shouldn’t.  We also shouldn’t allow language to abused that way, because active enforcement of contracts is anything but the live-and-let-live passivity implied by the lying word “allow”.

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Kenneth Miller on Lisa

Kenneth Miller, the man arrested for helping Lisa Miller escape the country with her biological daughter, has written the following letter to a judge:

My Impressions of Lisa Miller

It was obvious to me that Lisa Miller was a woman of great faith. Her appearance and demeanor demonstrated that she was at peace with God and at peace with herself. The expression on her face reflected an inner joy that was even more remarkable in light of the difficult situation she was in at the time. It was evident to me in the short time I was with her that here was a woman who walked with God.

Later I had the opportunity to read more about her tumultuous and at times tragic journey. It became even more obvious to me that this was a woman who had met Jesus of Nazareth and had powerfully experienced His mercy and grace. I believe Lisa is a living testimony to the Power of Jesus, the Power that can set us free from the burden of sin, even the sins of a sexual nature that all of us face in this decadent age. She would tell us that Jesus is ALIVE and standing by to help anyone who reaches out to Him with the smallest spark of faith. She would tell us that no sin is too great for Jesus to cleanse and heal, that no one is beyond hope of change. She would tell us about the great peace and joy that surrender to Jesus brings.

By all indications Lisa was in full command of her faculties, she was not unstable or delusionary as some reports have suggested.

I’m sure Lisa would admit to her share of mistakes in the custody battle, yet I believe she sought to live by her faith and conscience as best she knew how.

It was apparent that Lisa’s understanding of marriage, family and parenthood was orthodox. Her views are consistent with the Scriptures, the historical teachings of the Church, the social customs of the human race since the beginning of time, and with the beliefs of the vast majority of peoples around the world right now.

Since Lisa’s personal beliefs on these matters are rooted in the Scriptures, it was obvious that for her, these are issues of faith and conscience, and deeply held religious beliefs.

Lisa is painfully aware that in the United States, with less than 5% of the world’s population, there is a movement to radically redefine and re-engineer marriage, family and parenthood, the basic social elements God designed into the human race. She is well aware that this movement operates through all the agencies of American culture, the media, education, the entertainment world, modern psychology, the law and courts, and even through some churches. Lisa knows from personal experience that this movement is coordinated, relentless, and determined to cause everyone to conform to its ideology, and that it will attempt to marginalize and penalize those who do not conform.

In order to stay true to her faith and conscience, Lisa chose to flee with her daughter instead of conforming. She is still fleeing. She has been charged with kidnapping her own biological daughter and according to recent court testimony is still being hunted by the United States Government—“bouncing around the barrios of Nicaragua,” as some news reports have put it, trying to stay ahead of the authorities.

From what I know about her faith and conscience, I think it could be rightly said that Lisa Miller left the United States and fled to Nicaragua in search of religious freedom, the freedom to raise her daughter under God’s order—as her faith and conscience and deeply held religious beliefs called her to do.

These are my impression of my Sister in Christ, Lisa Miller.

Ken Miller

Waynesboro, VA

March 9, 2013

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